Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...able to pull up and finally win the set at 7-5. In the next two sets, Fraser-Campbell's service proved very effective and he scored several aces. His strokes were also working well and frequently he passed Whitney at the net, although the latter made several brilliant places. In the fifth set, each man won his service until the score stood at five-all. At this point Fraser-Campbell broke through his opponent's service, making the score 6-5 in his favor. This seemed to discourage Whitney and Fraser-Campbell won the match by taking the next...
...report of the Graduate Treasurer of Athletics for last year shows an excess of receipts over expenditures of slightly over $100 less than the year previous, but in the light of other factors, this is a brilliant showing. The increase in the general expense account was caused by the reorganization which has taken place in the business methods of the office. From the fact that the average daily receipts and expenses at the athletic office are over $420, the necessity of most thorough and accurate book-keeping is readily appreciated...
Samuel Williston, brilliant master and keen teacher of the common law, who for a score of years has trained and inspired a generation of lawyers...
...batting neither team showed up strongly. With the first two innings favorable to Harvard and Yale superior in the seventh, each team obtained four hits, none of which counted for more than a single base. In the field Yale was the more brilliant with McIntyre's phenomenal catch and a double play in the sixth. The feature of Harvard's fielding was the accuracy and speed of Young's throwing, which allowed Yale but one stolen base...
...Harvard University is a brilliant centre of philosophical study, combining in itself remarkable men of widely differing tendencies; William James, psychologist and physiologist, whose pragmatism attempts before all to demonstrate the effective existence of an element of novelty in the course of phenomena, and in consequence, the value and power of action; Royce, who combines a certain pragmatism with a symbolic logic, and seeks in the conditions of action, the explanation of the fundamental principles of the logic itself; Muensterberg, the learned psychologist, with a leaning toward the idealism of Fichte; Santayana, who seeks under action immobility, and under...